Eyeglasses.



L.' F. ADT; EYEGLASSES. APPLIOATIOR rxmin JULY1fl,-1908.

Patented Mar. 21, 1911'.

'LEO F. ADT, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

' EYEGLASSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Patented Mar. 21, 1911.-

Application filed July 16, 1908. Serial No. 443,806.

' Tooll- 071cm it may concern:

lie it'known that I, Lno F. Am, of Albany, in the countyof Albany and State of New York, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyeglasses; and I i do hereby declare the following to be a full,

, .iniury t the nose often results;

clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

The present invention relates to eyeglasses audit has for an object to provide a construction which will insure greater com- .fort 'to users and "at. the same time lessen the labor of opticians in fittin eyeglasses.

T 0 these and other ends t e invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described,' the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the speeification. In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front view of a pair of eyeglasses embodying thisinvention; F ig. 2 is a top iew; Fig. 3 isa rear view; Figs. 1 and 5 are detail horizontal sections of the ortions permittigg the adjustments of boti nose guards a Fig. (i'ais a perspective view' of one of the mg nose guards of a pair of eyeglasses are adjusted to a nose not only is a great deal oftime consumed in the fitting but a. perfect adjustment is not obtained and consequently Making both nose guards self adjusting or so, that they will rock freely will in many instances overcome these 'disadvanta es but it-is practicallyimpossible with this construction to hold two lenses in the same plane as there is a tendency for-the glasses to'wabble in a vertical direction.

In this invention I secure the eyeglasses against wabbling in a vertical direction and at the same time' lessen the labor of fitting and obviate the probability of injury to the nose, by mounting the nose bearing member of one nose guard so that it will beself adjusting or adapted to rock freely and by inounting the other so it will be non-adj usting or rigidly su ported.

eferring'pa'rticu arly to the drawings, wherein I have shown the invention embodied in"a so called finger piece ey loss, 1 indicates the lenses and 2 lens attaching de vices of any suitable construction connected by a bridging portion 3 forming with the attaching devices a sup-port for the lenses.

- Arranged on the support are thetwo nose guards- A and B. The nose guard A is nonadjusting to con-form to the taperof the nose and comprises in this instance a supporting member consisting of an arm or lever- 4 mounted to swing substantially in a horizontal plane on a pivot 5 located between its ends on the support, the arm projecting forwardly'a-nd rearwardl'y from the support. Its forwardly extending portion acts as a finger piece by which the guard is operated while its rearwardly extending port-ion carries a nose bearing member, a spring, preferably an arm "6, serving to move the nose bearing member toward the nose. In order to su port the nose bearing member, arm 4 may formed with an upwardly defieetedbr "ertically offset portion 7 to which is secured preferably a portion 8 that projects outwardly from the nose bearing member at a point substantially midway between the upper and the' lower end thereof.

The means for securing the nose bearing member to the supporting arm or lever 4" permits the member to be initially adjusted to conform to the taper of one side of the wearers nose and after adjustment to be rigidly secured to its supporting arm in order to maintain its adjustment. In thisinstance, this result is secured by passing a rivet 10 horizontally through the ofi'set portion '7 and through outwardly turned portion 8, and setting the ends of the rivet, "to clamp the nose engaging member against movement. Of course the guard may be formed in the first instance to conform to thenose, and this initial adjustment dis-.

pensed with, but this will 'uire the formation of a separate guard or each/nose, whereas in this construction one guard may be made to fit any one of a number of noses. The. self adjusting guard B comprises in this instance also a lever 4, a sprin 6 and a nose bearing member arranged on t erearwan-Hy extending portion of the lever. The self adjustment is preferably obtained by mounting the nose bearing memben. on its supporting arm or lever 4 so that it may rook freely; For thiupurpose the lever may carry a horizontally arranged hearing or pivot H which extends longitudinally of and parallel with the lever at and has a reduoed portion 12 passed through and secured to a vertically offset portion 13 on the lever. In order to cooperate with this pivot, the nose bearing member has an outwardly extendin bearing portion 14 perforated to receive tie pivot and held thereon by a flange or head 15. The rear of the .nose bearing member is arranged to cooperate with the inner side wall of the offset portion 13 in order to limit the movement of the nose-bearing member about its axis.

Thenose bearing members of both guards may consist of a lower bearing pad 16 formed by a loop arranged transversely of the plane of the lenses, and an up er bearing pad 17 connected to one arm 0 the loop in order to yield relatively to the lower pad.

In operation, the nose guards are separated by pressing the forward ends oflevers 4 toward each other and then the eyeglasses are positioned on'the nose. Upon the release of the guards the non-adjusting one will engage the side of the nose for which it has been adjusted, and the. self-adjusting one will automatically conform to the taper of the other side of the nose.

Eyeglasses constructed in accordance with this invention are easyto fit, thus recom mending them to the trade, and at the same time the user obtains greater comfort'as-a pinchin of the nose is impossible; provided a Vhat I claim is:

1. Eyeglasses embodying a guard and a non-adjusting guardjthe self adjusting'guard beingmovable relatively to both lenses. 2. Eyeglasses embodying a-guard having a non-roe ing nose engaging member and a guard having anose' engaging member mounted to rock freely about a. point substantially midway of its nose engaging portions. I

3. Eyeglasses embodying a guard comprising a supporting arm and a nose bearmg member mountedto rock freely thereon at a' point substantially midway of its nose engaging portion to conform to the taper of the nose; and a guard com rising a suppprting a-rm having the nose aring memr ri 'dly supported thereon.

4. yeg asses embodying a self adj guard and a non-adjusting guard rovid with means permitting an initia adjustment. 7

listing ridge of proper length is employed. self-adjusting 5. Eyeglasses embodying a guard pro vided with an upper and tilower nose bear-- ing portion and mounte to rock-freely about a point substantially midway between its upper and its lower nose engaging portions, and a non-adjusting guard provided with an upper and a lower nose bearing portion and having means permitting its initial adjustment about a point located substantially midway between its upper and its lower end.

6. Eyeglasses embodying a non-rocking guard having means permitting an adjust-- ment about a point substantially midway between its upper and lower e'nd,andaselfadjusting guard mounted to rock freely about a point substantially midway between its upperand lowerends.

7. )yeglasses embodying a self-adjusting guard comprising a s'upporting arm and a nose bearing member mounted to rock freely thereon about a point substantially midway between its upper and lower end to conform to the nose 0 the wearer; and a non'adjusting guard comprising a supporting arm, and a nose bearing member rigidly supported onthe arm and adjustable about a pofilnt midway between its upper and lower en 8. In eyeglasses the combination with a support, of a pair of nose guards each comprisin a lever mounted to swing on the support substantially in a horizontal plane,

and projecting forwardly and rearwardly from the support, the lever of one of said mg member.

9. In eyeglasses, the combination with a support, of apair of nose guards each embodying a nose bearing member and a lever mounted on the support to swing substantially in a horizontal plane and pro ecting forwardly and rearwardly from the support, the rearwardly projecting portion carrying the nose bearing member, one of said guards having its nose bearing member rigidly supported on its lever and the other guard havin its nose bearing member mounted to root freely on its lever.

' LEO F. ADT. Witnesses:

RUssrLL B. Gnirrrrn, HAROLD H. SIMMS.

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